Apple

We will never forget whatever Apple’s announcing tomorrow, according to the teaser text on the company’s website. “Ah, November 16th. The day Apple launched iTunes for the web,” we might say in the year 2056. That’s not to say that Apple’s launching iTunes for the web, but a web-based version of iTunes would certainly be a relatively big …

The app teaches you to play the fiddle using a rolling line of notes that cross over a virtual set of strings, similar to how games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero work. You can play along to a built-in library of …

For this week’s Technologizer column on TIME.com, I wrote about Microsoft’s mojo–or, more specifically, the fact that the company has had trouble translating its utter dominance of PC software into a leadership role in the most significant emerging tech categories moving forward, such as Web services and mobile operating systems.

When Apple unveiled the iPhone 4 in June, it was first available in black with the promise of a white version to follow in July. That ship date got pushed off until “later this year,” according to Apple. The company said, “White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have continued to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally …

My TIME.com Technologizer column this week is about the new direction that Apple is taking Macs–which is about bringing some of the simplicity of the iPhone and iPad to the 27-year-old Mac platform. The first chapter in that story is last week’s introduction of all-new 11.6″ and 13.3″ MacBook Air models–and the most striking thing …

Among the announcements from Apple’s press event yesterday, we heard about the new Mac App Store. If you’ve ever downloaded an app to an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, you’ll feel right at home with this. The Mac App Store will be rolled out within 90 days, according to Apple.

Apple is holding its Back to the Mac media event today at 1:00 PM, Eastern. We could all wait patiently for the company to announce whatever it’s going to announce, or we could go the fun route and engage in wild speculation.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs was on his company’s fourth quarter earnings call last night. It was a rare appearance but Jobs said, “I just couldn’t help dropping by for our first $20 billion quarter.” He also couldn’t help taking a few shots at the competition—specifically RIM, (makers of the BlackBerry handsets) and Google’s Android …